'Argo'

Warner Bros. Pictures

Director Ben Affleck gets more impressive with every film he makes. This one could almost serve as a prequel to "Zero Dark Thirty." It's one of the many side stories to emerge from 1979 capture of the American Embassy in Iran. Riveting and ironic, the CIA con that slipped out a handful of the diplomatic corps who had escaped detection was nail-biting even though we knew how it ended.

Director Ben Affleck gets more impressive with every film he makes. This one could almost serve as a prequel to "Zero Dark Thirty." It's one of the many side stories to emerge from 1979 capture of the American Embassy in Iran. Riveting and ironic, the CIA con that slipped out a handful of the diplomatic corps who had escaped detection was nail-biting even though we knew how it ended. (Warner Bros. Pictures)

Director Ben Affleck gets more impressive with every film he makes. This one could almost serve as a prequel to "Zero Dark Thirty." It's one of the many side stories to emerge from 1979 capture of the American Embassy in Iran. Riveting and ironic, the CIA con that slipped out a handful of the diplomatic corps who had escaped detection was nail-biting even though we knew how it ended.